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This evocative account of the author’s mother and aunt – identical twin sisters who stole the hearts of London’s 1930s intelligentsia – captures their closeness and lust for life
The dazzlingly beautiful identical twins Mamaine and Celia Paget were born in 1916 and brought up in rural Suffolk – not the greatest springboard, you would think, for lives at the intellectual heart of the mid-20th century. Yet the list of their friends reads like a roll call of literary notables: Dick Wyndham, Peter Quennell,
The vaunted polemicist Christopher Hitchens left behind not only many friends and admirers (and antagonists), but numerous open questions, too.
Was the loose-knit band of rebels always destined to go fringe?
We need to rethink how we fight the ascendant cultural left, which does not consider truth an arbiter.